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French police officers keep watch in front of the Louvre museum, closed for security reasons, in Paris on October 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters France was on high alert on October 14, after an attacker stabbed a teacher to death in what the President called an act of “Islamist terror,” with troops deployed and the Louvre…
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Christopher Luxon spent seven years as chief executive of Air New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand’s incoming prime minister is a wealthy teetotaller and lover of country music who rose to prominence when he ran the national airline. Christopher Luxon was poised to be the country’s 42nd leader on Saturday after his centre-right National Party secured…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Oct. 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Saturday for protection for civilians in both the Gaza Strip and Israel as the…
China has boosted engagement with the Taliban (Representational) Kabul: The Taliban will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, underscoring Beijing’s growing official ties with the administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any government. Taliban officials and ministers have at times travelled to regional meetings, mostly those…
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Moscow’s Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov hopes to meet representatives of the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Qatar next week for talks to free Israeli hostages, Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency reported on October 14. Moscow has so far carefully denounced violence from both sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, while renewing an…
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Armenian lawmakers attend the session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia in Yerevan, Armenia, on Oct. 3, 2023. The Armenian parliament on Oct. 3 voted to join the International Criminal Court. | Photo Credit: AP Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan approved the parliament’s decision to join the International Criminal Court in a move…
Gunfire is heard in the distance and smoke is seen rising nearby. Even as the threat of an invasion hung heavy over Gaza, the Israeli military on Saturday released a video showing the deadly attack on the Nova music festival in Israel exactly a week ago, in which 260 people were killed and many others…
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Conservative Former businessman Christopher Luxon will be New Zealand’s next Prime Minister after winning a decisive election victory Saturday. People voted for change after six years of a liberal government led for most of that time by Jacinda Ardern. The exact makeup of Luxon’s conservative government is still to be determined as ballots continued to…
Gaza City: Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 324 people in the past 24 hours alone, including 126 children, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said. There were 88 women among those killed, it said, adding that 1,018 were wounded over that period. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by…
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Moscow: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov may meet Hamas officials in Qatar next week and discuss a possible release of hostages seized by the group in its attack on Israel a week ago, Russian state news agency RIA reported on Saturday. Bogdanov told RIA he was heading to Qatar and usually met with Hamas…
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